Now in its fifth year, the BigIdeas Customer and Industry Forum examines the biggest issues and trends in the world of guided selling, product configuration, and sales process efficiencies.

BigIdeas 2008 provides a forum for customers, partners, industry experts, and interested companies to discuss innovative business strategies and best practices to increase revenues, improve sales efficiency and reduce costs. BigIdeas offers the opportunity for direct access to peers and thought leaders where you can learn and share actionable strategies on how to:

• Eliminate redundant steps and labor-intensive manual processes in the sales cycle
• Take a complex quote and order process and make it much simpler and more accurate
• Increase quotation volume and sales
• Quickly generate customized proposals, contracts and other sales documents
• Improve forecast and order accuracy
• Incorporate real-time pricing updates
• Develop more timely and automated online relationships with sales reps, customers and distributors to help them easily identify, select, configure, quote and order products that meet customers’ specific needs

Any company that wants to improve its sales cycles and centrally manage its sales processes will find this conference useful and enlightening.

You can also participate in planning BigMachines’ next product release. Join us as we share our detailed roadmap plans. Provide input in guiding our product development priorities to meet your business needs. Each year we commit to developing the top features voted by our customers, and to launch them prior to next year’s conference.

BigIdeas 2008 will be held at the Sofitel Chicago Water Tower, ranked the #1 hotel in the world by Expedia. The hotel has reserved a limited number of rooms for BigIdeas at a discounted conference rate (mention "BigMachines" to receive the discount rate).

The keynote address at BigIdeas 2008 will be delivered by Tom Kelley, the general manager of IDEO, the widely admired design and development firm that brought us the Apple mouse, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting edge products and services. Fast Company listed IDEO as number five in its 2008 list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. Tom has written two outstanding books on innovation: The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. He will give the audience insights for managing innovation in their own companies and, throughout the conference, attendees will discover innovative solutions that can power their sales processes and enable their companies to sell more intelligently and efficiently. Read the press release.

Registration for BigIdeas 2008, Oct 5-7 is $599.
Registration for Customer Training, October 8 is $199.

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